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"Today's judgment ignores the reality that both adult consumers and governments have known about the risks associated with smoking for decades, and seeks to relieve adult consumers of any responsibility for their actions," said Tamara Gitto, Vice Preside

A judge has ordered three tobacco companies to pay more than $15 billion in damages to Quebec smokers in what is described as the largest monetary award in Canadian legal history. Quebec Superior Court Justice Brian Riordan found Imperial Tobacco Canada

As we approach World No Tobacco Day on May 31, a new KPMG study on illegal tobacco in the Americas sheds a new light on the theme chosen by the World Health Organization this year: Stop Illicit Trade of Tobacco Products.

As of this Saturday at midnight, provincial legislation in Nova Scotia prohibits the sale of menthol cigarettes, flavoured rolling papers and flavoured cigarillos under five grams. However, Imperial Tobacco Canada said the province does not have the aut

"I'm proud that Nova Scotia now has the most progressive tobacco legislation in Canada," said Health and Wellness Minister Leo Glavine. But not everyone is as thrilled that the province will become the first jurisdiction in the world to ban menthol ciga

The Canadian Cancer Society and the Nova Scotia government celebrated the upcoming ban on flavoured tobacco, including menthol, at an event Friday. But looming in the background was news of a lawsuit from Imperial Tobacco over the ban. Julia Wong reports.

"Every time governments bring in progressive legislation against tobacco … big tobacco puffs up its chest and says, 'We're bigger than you are, and we can beat you and this is just the way they play the game,' and we're not going to stand for it," Stead-